Stop Digging

A report from Oil Change International called The Sky's Limit: Why the Paris Climate Goals Require a Managed Decline of Fossil Fuel Production reaches a bleak conclusion.

We find that the oil, gas, and coal in already-developed fields and mines (that is, where the infrastructure has been built) exceeds the amount that can be burned while likely staying below 2°C, and significantly exceeds the amount that can be burned while staying below 1.5°C.

They recommend that

No new fossil fuel extraction or transportation infrastructure should be built worldwide.

Instead, we should allow for the gradual decline of existing operations, over the coming decades, and invest strongly in clean energy to make up the difference. We have seen that there is no economic or technical barrier to making this transition over this time frame: the only requirement is political will.

Humans have, maybe, 17 years to get our act together.